Anthropic has a serious problem with its product. Having examined Claude Sonnet 5.5 closely, I have concluded that it is so comically bad…

Trump is a known liar and known Putin bootlicker.

Anthropic wants you to believe that its distinguishing feature is safety. Sadly, that is just marketing bullshit.

Russia is rattling the nuclear saber over Kaliningrad because something changed.

Everybody is already shitting on Eric Schmitt.

Sometimes a powerful person tells you something about himself that is so disturbing that the instinct is to search for a more sophisticated…

Barack Obama recently returned to an idea he has been carrying around for years. Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Salem…

I am going to use the words war, peace and World War Three somewhat differently from the way they are normally used. That is necessary…

Abbas Araghchi is in New York, the United States and Iran are talking, and President Trump says he believes a settlement will eventually be…

Path of Exile 2 has been a buggy, high-friction, and unfun pile of dog shit from day one, and almost two years of Early Access have done…

History does not arrive to us as a finished narrative. It arrives as facts colliding through time. Men, institutions, technologies…

Alexander Vindman lost.

The principal takeaway rule of the capacity game is: Do not gamble away a capacity you may be unable to rebuild when losing the gamble can…

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Vlad Vexler has raised what I think is the right concern about Mykhailo Fedorov’s sudden call for Ukraine to find a way to hold elections…

At first glance, this is just another Kyle Kulinski segment in which he gets furious with Democratic leadership. Hakeem Jeffries goes on…

Vlad Vexler has made an argument I mostly accept.

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Vlad Vexler and Jake Broe almost solved an important game-theory problem without realizing they had constructed one.

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I have never particularly cared about .

YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart

Jason Jay Smart is getting closer to understanding what is happening inside Russia.

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

I am not a political scientist. I am, however, a bit of a researcher myself. That is, after all, where the Raymond Method comes from.

The public debate over artificial intelligence is trapped between two inadequate positions. One treats large language models as emerging…

The United States did not enter the Iran war lacking military power. It entered with the most capable long-range strike force in the world…

I blocked David Pakman before Pakman released the video telling dissatisfied viewers to stop watching him. I also blocked him before The…

A settlement between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov is possible.

President Trump did not win the World Cup. Spain did.

There is a difference between analysis and sitting in front of a camera while information passes through you.

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I have an immediate reaction when I encounter an obvious right-wing hack. The shilling is normally unmistakable. The talking points arrive…

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Preston Stewart has just explained why this is the moment for non-MAGA Republicans to abandon President Trump.